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If the male is circumcised, his reduced vulnerability to carriage of several STIs means his female partner is less likely to become infected. The female partners of circumcised men are at reduced risk of HPV infection, the main cause of cervical cancer [53, 65–67], as well as Trichomonas vaginalis [68] and bacterial vaginosis [68, 69]. While RCT data were not as clear, observational studies have indicated that MC reduces female HSV-2 [70], Chlamydia trachomatis [71], and HIV [72–74].

I’ve only had a few minutes to play around with Volcanoids, but its tactile mechanical crafting systems reminded me a bit of Factorio at first. Gather metal ore, chuck it into the right machines, hit the buttons and out pops SCIENCE! Relaxing, right up until the first volcanic eruption. The game told me to hide in my initial home base – an armoured submarine – but instead I stayed above decks to see what would happen. Boom – the world shakes and an enormous cloud is blasted high into the air. And then a vast tsunami of super-heated dust starts rolling across the entire island. I slammed the door of my sub shut just as the wave was about to hit.

Efforts to rescue Julen Rosello from the 110-metre deep, 25cm diameter borehole have gripped Spain since the boy fell into the waterhole on Sunday.

tens of thousands of gdańsk, the ceremony followed, according to police, on screens in front of the Church and in the city centre. The memorial was also broadcast in many other Polish cities. For Poland as a state mourning was declared.

That’s unlikely to be the most “extreme” form of life we will ever find, mind you. Apart from that fact that it depends what you mean by extreme, the team also stress that they are still just scratching the, er, subsurface even with the world’s most pioneering drilling techniques and modelling in full swing.

“By chipping, crushing, and powdering hard rock formations, the Hughes two-cone drill bit could reach vast amounts of oil in reservoirs thousands of feet below the surface,” ASME said.

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When the bit hits water, fluid inside the rods changes density, alerting drill operators. Clean water is usually found between 90 to 150 feet below the surface, and the Village Drill can reach that depth in eight hours.

The key to installing a reliable and efficient borehole is understanding the hydrogeology of the site, and assessing the aquifer potential and aquifer properties. The geology of the UK is highly variable, but we are fortunate to benefit from some excellent aquifers on both a local and regional scale. The major Chalk, Limestone and Sandstone aquifers found in the South and Midlands in particular provide substantial yields, potentially in the region of 1,000m3/day or more. Good yields can be obtained from other formations too, and at a local scale there might be several options for developing an independent water supply.

The advent of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s re-focused interest on MC as a means of prevention of not just HIV, but other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and adverse medical conditions. This has led to MC programs in high-HIV prevalence settings of sub-Saharan Africa focused on men for more immediate reductions in HIV incidence, but considerable interest has also been given to encouraging infant MC for longer-term gains [10, 11]. There have as well been recent calls for the promotion of infant MC in the USA [12, 13], the UK [14], Australia [15] and sub-Saharan Africa [16, 17].

Elsewhere, members of the team travel 60 miles east to the Center of Geographic Sciences in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, to follow up on the offshore data that experts collected in last week’s episode. There they are told that LIDAR scans reveal two possible vent locations off the southern shore of Oak Island, just south of the swamp. Could these be a cause of the ice holes that Dan Blankenship found in the same area back in the 1970s?

This landmark Nature Geoscience review, published back in September, represents the culmination of a decade of work. The DCO is an international collaboration of multidisciplinary scientists – featuring over 1,000 scientists spread across 52 countries – who, since 2009, been attempting to quantify the presence of carbon within Earth’s crust.